Chapter 2758 Killing Tribulation Comes Again

“Junior Brother?!”

A rare look of surprise crossed the farmer-like man’s dark face before he broke into a wide grin. “Haha, what a turn of fate. I didn’t expect this.”

Not far away, the slender, wounded figure froze for a moment before, then burst into hearty laughter. “To meet again after such a long parting...it’s a blessing beyond words!”

Meanwhile, Lin Xun’s face was full of agitation. He said urgently, “Senior Brother Pu Zhen, Senior Brother Xue Ya, how...did you end up like this?”

A reunion after such a long separation should have been joyous. Unfortunately, seeing the grievous injuries covering his two senior brothers made Lin Xun’s heart tighten with worry.

“Nothing much. We just ran into some figures from the Zen Sect and exchanged a few blows.” Pu Zhen replied with a simple, honest smile.

“Hey, seeing us in this sorry state must have worried you, Junior Brother.” Xue Ya quickly used a secret art to erase the bloodstains, mend his robes and smooth his disheveled long hair. In an instant, his appearance was much less miserable.

However, his face was still pale to the point of translucence, and the flow of his qi was clearly disordered. He was gravely wounded.

Lin Xun caught all this at a glance. “Senior Brothers, let’s go inside and rest. You can tend to your wounds while we talk.”

“Alright.”

Both Pu Zhen and Xue Ya agreed with faint smiles. Inside, the three sat cross-legged, and Lin Xun personally poured tea for his senior brothers.

“You focus on healing first. I’ll speak with Junior Brother,” Pu Zhen instructed Xue Ya firmly, knowing his injuries demanded immediate care.

“Bah, it’s just a few wounds. It’s not like I haven’t suffered worse. Senior Brother, there’s no need to make a fuss...”

Before Xue Ya could finish, Pu Zhen shot him a glare. That alone silenced him. With a sulky face, Xue Ya obediently shut his mouth and settled into meditation.

Lin Xun couldn’t help but chuckle. It was clear that even now, his senior brother Xue Ya, once hailed as the Emperor Dao Top Scholar Lang, a man whose brilliance shook the world, still showed deep respect and deference toward Senior Brother Pu Zhen.

“Junior Brother, how did you end up here?” Pu Zhen asked.

Lin Xun recounted everything that had happened since he left the Origin Sect. When Pu Zhen learned that Lin Xun had personally slain the Four Fiend Venerables of Empty Hidden World, his expression shifted.

“Junior Brother...you have truly grown.” He sighed, his dark and simple features softening with pride. He thought back to when he had first met Lin Xun. At the time he was only at the Saint Stage. Now, he had become a peerless figure on the immortal path, single-handedly sweeping aside the Four Fiend Venerables!

“Senior Brother, what about you?” After finishing his account, Lin Xun turned the question back on Pu Zhen.

Jun Huan had once told him that six senior brothers, Eldest Senior Brother Combat Emperor, Fifth Senior Brother Blazing Jun, Eighth Senior Brother Clairvoyant, Eleventh Senior Brother Pu Zhen, Twelfth Senior Brother Shen Yan, and Thirteenth Senior Brother Li Xuanwei, had all gone to the Taiyu True Realm in search of a great fortune tied to Transcendence.

Meanwhile, Senior Brother Xue Ya, Senior Brother Qing Ting, Senior Sister Cheng Yu along with Third Senior Sister, had headed to Spirit Sect Ancestral Court.

However now, Pu Zhen, who should have been in the Taiyu True Realm, was here together with Xue Ya, who should have been in the Spirit Sect. Worse, both had been grievously injured by figures of the Zen Sect Ancestral Court. This was undoubtedly puzzling.

“It’s a long story.” Pu Zhen fell silent, as though weighing his words.

At that moment, Xue Ya, who had his eyes closed, suddenly interjected, “Senior Brother, you’re no good at speaking. Let me tell Junior Brother instead...”

Then he launched into a torrent of words. It had to be said that Senior Brother Xue Ya truly lived up to his reputation as a man who was well read and eloquent. His words flowed like a string of pearls as he recounted everything to Lin Xun with vivid details.

Pu Zhen could only watch on with a trace of helplessness. He was well aware of his own clumsy tongue. Although he was worried over Xue Ya’s condition, in the end he chose not to interrupt.

When Xue Ya finished, Lin Xun understood the whole picture. In truth, it was not that complicated.

Senior Brother Pu Zhen and the others had followed their eldest senior brother into the Taiyu True Realm in search of the transcendence fortune. Unfortunately, there, they encountered obstruction from the forces of the Zen Sect Ancestral Court.

In the end, although their eldest senior brother and the others succeeded in obtaining the fortune related to breaking through to the Transcendence Stage, they were ultimately ensnared within the Taiyu True Realm by the forces of the Zen Sect.

The Zen Sect was vicious beyond comparison. They cast a vast net of heaven and earth to seal off the entire Taiyu True Realm, and even allowed several Immortal Giants of the Eighth Heaven Domain to be stationed outside.

Fortunately, though trapped, their eldest senior brother and the others were not gravely harmed. They concealed themselves within a forbidden zone of the Taiyu True Realm, ensuring that their lives were not in immediate danger.

𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Moreover, following their eldest senior brother’s decision at the time, they did not rush to escape the Taiyu True Realm. Instead, they chose to wait for the right opportunity to come so that Blazing Jun, Pu Zhen, and the others could also use this period to pursue their own breakthroughs toward the Transcendence Stage.

Following that, decades passed.

What they had not anticipated was that the Immortal Giants of the Eighth Heaven Realm would deliberately spread false information to Third Senior Sister and the others in the Spirit Sect Ancestral Court, claiming that their eldest senior brother and his group had already been surrounded and were on the brink of destruction!

Third Senior Sister Ruo Su did suspect that this was likely a scheme by the Immortal Giants of the Eighth Heaven Domain. However, out of deep concern for their eldest senior brother and the others, she still sent Xue Ya alone to the Taiyu True Realm to investigate.

After all, it was just to gather information so one person would suffice. Besides, Xue Ya held countless trump cards and killing moves at his disposal, which was more than enough to handle any unforeseen dangers.

However, they underestimated the ruthlessness of the Zen Sect and the Immortal Giants of the Eighth Heaven Domain. On his way to Taiyu True Realm, Xue Ya was ambushed.

The Zen Sect dispatched a Buddha Venerable at the Transcendence Immortal Stage together with four Brahma Lords of the Nirvana Spirit Realm, and together they dealt a devastating blow to Xue Ya.

At the most perilous moment, Pu Zhen appeared, rescued Xue Ya and brought him back to Cloud Guardian Workshop. Hearing this, Lin Xun felt his heart tremble and his very soul shaken. Although his senior brother Xue Ya spoke with wit and eloquence, behind his words lurked perils beyond imagination!

Once he had calmed down, Lin Xun couldn’t help but ask, “Senior Brother Pu Zhen, how did you know Senior Brother Xue Ya was in danger?”

Pu Zhen explained, “We were trapped in the Taiyu True Realm. But with Senior Brother Clairvoyant’s innate secret art, we could glimpse the enemies’ movements and even hear their talk outside.

“When we learned that they had spread false news to lure Third Senior Sister and the others into the Taiyu True Realm, we knew something was wrong. Eldest Senior Brother then decided, no matter what, one of us must get out to warn Third Senior Sister not to come.

“So he and the others fought hard. They tore open an opening that gave me the chance to break free. On the way, I ran into Junior Brother Xue Ya. After pulling him out of danger, we came here.”

Pu Zhen’s account was as wooden and blunt as his nature. In just a few flat sentences, he recounted everything from start to finish. Lin Xun could only picture for himself the bloody, perilous, and bone-chilling slaughter that must have taken place.

Still, despite Pu Zhen’s simple way of speaking, he explained the matter clearly.

“Are Eldest Senior Brother and the others safe?” Lin Xun asked anxiously.

Pu Zhen replied, “They’re all injured. Outside Taiyu True Realm, there are at least ten old monsters at the Transcendence Stage stationed there. If not for Eldest Senior Brother, who has already stepped into Transcendence, holding back all those murderous calamities alone, the outcome would have been unimaginably dire.”

Lin Xun’s chest tightened.

Seeing this, Xue Ya smiled reassuringly. “Don’t worry, Junior Brother. Our senior brothers have been through every kind of horror and peril imaginable. Nothing will happen to them.”

Pu Zhen nodded. “Yes, that’s exactly what Eldest Senior Brother told me to tell you after I got out. Just focus on your own affairs and don’t worry about what’s happening in Taiyu True Realm.”

As if worried Lin Xun still hadn’t understood, Xue Ya added, “Eldest Senior Brother and the others are hiding within Taiyu True Realm, so their lives aren’t in immediate danger. But if we attempt a rescue now, we’ll only be walking right into the enemy’s carefully laid trap.

“That’s why Eldest Senior Brother and the others went to such lengths to send Senior Brother Pu Zhen out. They want to tell us to each focus on our own task and not be swayed by this incident. Otherwise, we’d be falling right into the enemy’s scheme.”

Xue Ya went on at length, while Pu Zhen only gave a nod and one word. “Correct.”

“But what if...”

Lin Xun had just opened his mouth when Xue Ya cut him off. “There is no ’what if.’”

Lin Xun was silent for a moment before asking, “Then when will we go to rescue them?”

“After Third Senior Sister and the others finish their matters in the Spirit Sect Ancestral Court. And after you, Little Junior Brother, finish your task in the Origin Sect Ancestral Court,” Xue Ya said solemnly.

Lin Xun was taken aback. “To become the Pavilion Master of the Origin Clarity Pavilion? Wouldn’t that mean waiting nearly a hundred years?”

Pu Zhen rumbled in his deep, blunt voice, “We can wait. They can’t.”

“Little Junior Brother, don’t worry. Our Fangchun Mountain has waited countless years for this moment. What’s a little longer?”

Xue Ya’s smile was gentle and his voice bright and clear. “Changes may come at any moment, but outside the Taiyu True Realm, the enemy can only wait passively. Every move they make is under our watch...and that is our advantage.”

He paused before continuing, “The fact that they’ve mobilized such a grand formation only proves they’ve begun to see us as true threats. That is by no means a bad thing. In the past, aside from Master, none of us Fangchun Mountain successors were ever taken seriously by them.”

Lin Xun gradually calmed himself and asked, “Senior Brothers, what do you plan to do next?”

Pu Zhen and Xue Ya exchanged a glance, then Xue Ya said, “We’ll head to the Spirit Sect Ancestral Court and warn Third Senior Sister and the others not to act rashly.”

Lin Xun nodded, then suddenly asked the question that weighed heaviest on his heart. “Senior Brother...is our master...still alive?”

The enemies of the Eighth Heaven Domain had all sworn that the Lord of Fangchun Mountain perished in a catastrophic disaster when he ventured into the Ninth Heaven Domain.

“Alive,” Pu Zhen said calmly.

“He is most certainly alive,” Xue Ya said with firm conviction.

No matter who spoke, both radiated absolute certainty.

“Then where is he now?” Lin Xun couldn’t help but ask.

Xue Ya laughed heartily. “Hahaha! That, we don’t know. What matters is that we each do our part.”

Pu Zhen gave a firm nod and was just about to speak when a deep, sonorous Buddhist chant resounded, heavy and resonant like the morning bell and evening dru。

“Fellow Daoist Xue Ya laughs so merrily. Do you truly believe you have escaped this calamity?”

Every word carried a wondrous power, striking directly into the heart. As the voice echoed, an indescribable aura of serenity, solemnity, and majesty surged forth, instantly saturating every inch of space within the room.